• Reference: 2012/2354
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Please confirm what contact you have had with Merton Council regarding the expansion of Dundonald Primary School (SW19) onto part of Dundonald Recreation Ground? Will you ensure that all protections currently afforded to the recreation ground are maintained in accordance with the policies of your London Plan?

• Reference: 2012/2353
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

How many additional first-time buyers will be helped in London following the Government's £280 million extension of the firstbuy scheme?

• Reference: 2012/2352
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Further to the Government's proposal to relax planning laws in order to 'kick-start the economy', how will you ensure that London receives its fair share of any additional funding announced to compensate for the loss of affordable homes delivered through developers?

• Reference: 2012/2351
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Does the Government's proposal to lift the requirement on developers to build affordable homes in order to boost the housing industry conflict with your existing policy to secure mixed and balanced communities through providing on-site affordable housing (LP Policy 3.9)?

• Reference: 2012/2350
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Are you satisfied that in 2011/12 the average time taken in London between obtaining permission and completing all units within a scheme was 30 months? How do you intend to tackle the growing number of sites where schemes have been started, but where units remain to be completed?

• Reference: 2012/2349
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

How do you respond to the Local Government Association's analysis of unimplemented planning permissions, which shows that London accounts for 22 per cent of all unimplemented residential schemes in England and Wales (equivalent to 460,966 units)? Will you convene a group of major developers to address this backlog and boost the London Housing market?

• Reference: 2012/2348
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

What progress has been made by the GLA in the repayment of the Olympic Land debt inherited from the London Development Agency? What costs associated with this debt have been incurred by the GLA so far in 2012-13, and how have these costs been covered?

• Reference: 2012/2347
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

It has been announced that only 28 per cent of the homes on the Chobham Manor site will be affordable. How will you ensure that the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) meets its aim of providing 35 per cent affordable housing across the park?

• Reference: 2012/2346
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

How do you respond to the call from the Residential Landlords Association for all publically owned, empty properties to be put up for auction to help boost housing supply?

• Reference: 2012/2345
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 September 2012

Further to your 2010 Empty Homes Audit, what future plans do you have to identify under-used or vacant dwellings in the private sector?